Evidence is considered more reliable—and more likely admissible by the court and acceptable by juries—if the side presenting it can assign a statistical probability that it came from a specific individual. In the Mars case, what type of data would have been needed to demonstrate that the shoe print was more likely to have come from someone other than the person who was convicted? Is this evidence considered class or individual evidence? What other evidence was found that linked the suspect to the victim?

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